QUIET DAY AT HOME

Today I plan on staying home and keeping an eye on Denim.  She will need to be escorted outside for bathroom as she can't get in and out of the dog doors in her cone.

Also, she needs to be kept quiet and calm.  She is bound to be in some pain, so I have to give her pain killers and anitbiotics twice a day, starting today.

I hope she's feeling much better in a few days time.

Here is a little video of Brylee scratching Denim's ears yesterday:


ABOVE:  Can't make up my mind if she was loving it or not!

I thought I would continue making a few things in the sewing room today.  Just not sure what!
I've got plenty of 'stock' for my market stall right now.  But I do want to be sewing something.  So... I will head in there a bit later and sort something out.

ONWARD...

9.25 am:  Bloody freezing!  All three dogs are curled up on the floor in front of the heat pump!  No one's moving.  Don't blame them.
I should be doing some housework, but stuff that, it's too cold to venture far from the family room right now.

I got mail:

ABOVE:  Feather decals.  I'm going to arrange them in a horizontal line on a white board for the spare bedroom.  Should look nice once done.

Every year since we moved here, I've taken a photo of our back hedge... to watch it growing kinda.  Probably not much of interest to you, but it is to me.  So, as I post all sorts of shit on here, you have to bear with me!

ABOVE:  So as you can see, the hedge is very slow growing!  But, it is getting there.  I reckon in another two years it will finally be higher than the neighbour's windows and we will have privacy at last in the back yard.  

Denim seems to be fine.  She's not trying to bother her tail today, which means it's not hurting her I suppose.  The only annoying thing about this situation is her being in a cone.  She can't get outside on her own, so has had a few 'accidents' on the carpet.  

I just put her outside for the 2nd time today... hopefully she 'goes' while out there.  At least the frost has finally gone and it's a beautiful winter's day.  Still freezing though!

All I've done this morning is a few odd jobs around the house!  No sewing.  Too cold to sit still for long really.  Gotta keep moving.

12.15 pm:  I just ventured outside to check on my succulents:

 ABOVE:  Most of them seem to have acclimatised, and have survived the frosts, except the one bottom right.  It's got really soft, fleshy leaves.  It's died.  Oh well, to only lose one is pretty good.

ABOVE: Denim is lying in the sunshine.  At least she's outside for a little while.

4.35 pm: And I've had a bloke in me kitchen for the past hour or so.
A plumber.
He put a new Insinkerator in, and a new tap.
I went down to Mitre 10 this afternoon to get a new tap as our's was leaking from being RUSTY!   It's only a 5 year old tap!

So anyway, I was standing in Mitre 10 trying to make up my mind WHAT tap to buy and the plumber rang and said he was on his way around, so that was good in a way, cos I had to make up my mind faster.

Once I'd boiled it down to 4, it got easier.  OMG why are there so many to choose from?  Seriously, there must have been over 40 to choose from.

ANYWAY... I digress.

Here's the new tap:

ABOVE:  This was the old tap, it had a rusty section ON THE TOP of the spout!  Crazy place to rust out.  Cheap and nasty tap obviously.

 ABOVE:  The whizz bang new tap!  I love it.   You can change how the water comes out, either in a stream, or like a shower.  It's gorgeous... AND... 

ABOVE:  Griffin demonstrating the pull out nozzle... which will come in handy to clean stuff that is a bit big like oven trays... AND...

ABOVE:  Handy for squirting teenagers!  (her jacket bore the brunt of it)  Hee hee... got Brylee good.  She had no idea the tap could do that.  *smiles*
The plumber was highly amused, I'd warned him I was going to do that ... so he stood back outta the way.  Clever man.

Now I can't surprise Stewy, cos he will have read this.  *sigh*

It's the end of the day.  I'm really happy with my day.  Denim is doing GREAT, such a relief.  I started another project tonight, will show you tomorrow.  Being in the sewing room makes me so happy.
Time to sign off for the day.